Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Margaret Gillies NPG Ax131880

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Cundall, Downes & Co

In the 1820s Margaret Gillies was a pupil of Frederick Cruikshank, a Scottish miniature painter. During the first two decades of her career Gillies made large miniature portraits, and some subject compositions, that were exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists. She produced portraits of many of the leading writers, intellectuals and social reformers of the day. From the 1840s she specialised increasingly in larger subject pictures, often portraying suffering heroines from the Bible, literature and history. After 1851,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.